Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-03
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win Work 0ut . o1oo Fine.
a slick rAsc93 was disposed 81 in the
Police Court yesterday in the person aof q
man named Henry Arendorf. The police
have been considerably annoyed with him
for q long time, and rave had him up sew
eral times for petty offences. but always
hitherto without success. But they made
the case stick this time. Last Sunday
evening John Anderson came into the
Washington Brewery saloon and went to
bediin the room Of Johnson the barkeeper,
| which is reached by a door IRON the saloon
opening on a stairway. He had about $45
on his person. and when he awoke in the
morning his money was gone. This man
Arendorf had been in the saloon during
the evening, and had been called back by
the bark johnson for trying to 90 up
stairs, mistaking the door leading there I u
one leading to the rear premises, although
he was
PERFECTLY WELL ACQUAINTED
with the saloon and it's surroundings.
Johnson also testified that he came TO him
and made a proposition TO him to be al
lowed to go up to where Anderson slept,
get the latter's money and divide with the
barkeeper. He Indignantly rejected the
proposition when Arendorf went out of the
door leading to the yard, was gone some
time and returned to the saloon when he
told Johnson in a pleasantly facetious way
that the latter was a fool. Marks were
found Of a mans shoes on the roof Of a
small outbuilding from which access could
be had to the o. in which Anderson lay
asleep by means of q window. Arendorf's
bad character was enough to make these
suspicious circumstances tell directly
against him and he was
UNABLE II PRODUCE
any evidence in his defence that would
shake it. He is an accomplished rogue,
and showed considerable acquaintance
with the method of examining witnesses.
He took occasion to interpose all the de-.
lay he could. When the Judge called the
case he said he had told the police he
wanted u jury, which was denied by the
officers. Judge Hamilton, however, issued
a venire, and six of the most responsible
citizens of the vicinity were corralled by
the Marshal and listened to Mr.. Aren-
DORIS beefing about being denied the evil
dence of witnesses necessary to his defencs,
who were in the court ROOF at the time he
spoke. But the shrewdnees with which the
fellow cross-examined the Territory's wit
nesses was most amusing, and showed that
he had not been before the Court ON pre-
vious occasions for nothing. Police Court
attorneys havea
LINE OF cRoss-ExAMNArloN
of a witness by which they discredit what
he does swear to by bringing out, after
more or less browbeating, the valuable 10.
formation that the witness will not swear
to something else, when the attorney,
looking at the jury with a significant air,
will say: II thought not. Then, in fact,
you don't know anything about it. That'll
do" as if he had convicted the man IF ly-
ing. This Mr.. Arendorff had profited by,
and several times his artful questions were
put with a skill that would have done
credit to some of the local legal lights.
But it was useless in the presence of Judge
Hamilton's quiet and easy but pointed
questioning, and the jury, after taking it
all in, found him guilty and left it to the
Judge to decide his measure of punishment,
when the latter gave him the limit of three
months in the County Jail and a fine OF
500.